StartupGrind

Startup Grind is a global startup community designed to educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs. It is powered by Google for Entrepreneurs. We host monthly events in 250 cities and 100 countries featuring successful local founders, innovators, educators and investors who share personal stories and lessons learned on the road to building great companies.

Startup Grind is a connected online and offline network of vibrant startup communities to help fuel innovation, economic growth and prosperity at the local level. While Startup Grind was founded in Palo Alto, California, our extended network of Startup Grind chapters are located around the world. Start a Chapter in your city or school!

Our Values

We believe in making friends, not contacts. We believe in giving, not taking. We believe in helping others before helping yourself. We are truly passionate about helping founders, entrepreneurs and startups succeed. We intend to make their startup journey less lonely, more connected and more memorable.

Switzerland

Zurich

2023 Group Members

About

In Zurich since 2013, to educate, inspire and connect founders, entrepreneurs, startups, investors, mentors and the ecosystem.

Upcoming Events

Thursday, April 19

Cristina Riesen (We Are Play Lab)

Fireside Chat

My inner fire is fuelled by an insatiable interest in technology, design, education, learning and entrepreneurship. I am an active supporter of the global startup ecosystem and a strong believer in the potential of human creative genius powered by collaboration across spatial, temporal and cultural boundaries.

Franziska Iseli (Basic Bananas)

Fireside Chat

Swiss born Australian, Franziska is a maverick entrepreneur, leading marketing and brand strategist, speaker, author and the co-founder of several companies. She is known for being a true visionary, doing things a bit differently, and her irreverence and thought-leadership.

Alex Pachikov (Sunflower Labs)

Fireside Chat

Member of the founding team at Evernote, where he served as VP of partnerships, developer relations and hardware products integration. Alex Pachikov thinks in the future. Today he’s applying that vision to meaningfully evolve home security to a place where drone-enabled insight will take us beyond locks and alarms.

Team

Zurich Director

An expert in startup culture and entrepreneurship, known as the “Go to guy” in the Swiss entrepreneurial ecosystem. Involved in the Zurich startup scene since 2009, David has been managing events for entrepreneurs such as Startup Grind, Zuripreneur Meetup, Failcon, FintechDay, and mentoring / judging at Mass Challenge, Startup Weekend, Founder Institute. Always connecting founders and investors, advising startups, with a passion to inspire the next big thing.
David is building bridges between technology and business. With a background in product development and technical implementation, combined with experience in problem diagnosing and solving, helping startups and business clients translate their needs and those of the market into new features, refinements and products. As Director of Startup Grind Zurich, I forge connections between local and global entrepreneurs, experts, executives and investors.
As a serial networker and social media aficionado, his love for testing beta versions of new products coming out of Zurich’s many startups has made him a sought-after advisor in many industries. A family man, shutterbug and snowboarder, engaging with you in English, Portuguese, Spanish, and German (basic).

Zurich Co-Director

Traveling, connecting like-minded people and startups are my passions.
At my travel startup Local-Insiders.com, I have made my passions my business by connecting visitors to a city with like-minded locals for bespoke experiences off the beaten path to provide access where there is none. Everything is 100% tailor-made just for them. Many of the locals I am working with are small creative business owners that can provide access where there is none.
Besides running my own business, I volunteer as a Co-Director at Startup Grind Zurich and as a startup mentor and judge at startup accelerator programs MassChallenge (Switzerland), Lausanne and F10.ch, Zurich to give back and to share my (startup and business) experience, connections and knowledge with aspiring founders.